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Requests time :D

I'm on holidays (yet they end on next monday) but I cant shoot machinima or create stories because my slow computer became even slower and it takes 40 minutes for bodyshop to load!And game sometimes (like once 4 launches) doesnt launch and  I have to clean up game's cache files to make it work..Those sentences made me to check how many downloads I have...5,87 GB or 18 295 files...I never remember having more then 1,20 GB of downloads...o_0 *ridding of extracted game clutter,dancing penguins and other unused stuff*

But,I havent written this entry to show how bad everything is...I written it to say that I'm open for clothing requests XD

I can do your request if:
-you have good quality (not lower then 500x500 for images showing only requested item and about 1000x1000 pixels for items on manequenium) source pics,awesome if you have pics of item from front and back  =)
-please remember that we all limited by standart and custom meshes ;)

But generally I'm open for requests =)

51 Days Left.

Howdy guys!

Christmas is approaching! And winter is coming. I'm very happy about that, cause I love christmas.
Buying present, bake cookies.. and Santa!

But back on topic. I created 2 new clothes  (it's 3 by now) today, I must only upload it. And photographing.
A bit annoying, it's a stupid work! I'll do this tonight or tomorrow - I'm not sure yet. (done, since now).
I hope that everybody will enjoy it :)

xoxo Jacky

At long last I am actually removing the Easter 'Have you had enough Chocolate yet' Poll....

Requests for sims

Well My friends seem to like my sims I make, I have been told that my sims actually look like the person I am trying to make the sim look like, so I have decided that I would take requests for sims. I would like if you would request celebz since it would be easier for me to get pictures, but if you want me to make one of you or someone you know I can see what I can do for you of course I would need pictures. And I will only be able to make the sims I cant make clothes or hair or anything like that so you would have to get that stuff from somewhere else, I will work with what I have for clothes and hair on my game, and make sure if your requesting a sim to tell me if it is personal or a celeb...

Leave requests below I will get to them eventually, or you can send me a private message, either way works for me, and you have to give me time to recive the requests, time to make them, time to get to yours cuz you may have people ahead of you, & of course time to upload it and publish it!!!

Late Night EP

I just love the new EP and all the new actions with it. I have been playing a lot, but there are a few bugs unfortunately.

My sim is a celebrity level 3 at the moment and she gets invited to a few parties. But when she arrived the sim isn't even at home. She also gets a few visits and they ask via the intercom to come in  but they never arrive. So one day I took her to the Bridgeport Sportsbar and what do I see there?

All these sims outside the club!

They couldn't get away and are standing there all the time! Hungry and feeling awful. Puking and screaming!

I got her up to the club but it was deserted so I sent her down again but the elevator took a very long time to arrive. When it did, 13 sims got out of it!

No wonder the parties gets canceled and no visitors arrive when they say they will.

I hope EA can fix this in a patch as many of these sims are standing outside the club 24/7.

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Yes, I must keep sharing my tales and adventures from my game. I have so much more fun now that there is actually a reason to leave the house and watch other sims. It was eh, OK, before. Hanging out on the street corners, playing chess in the park, loitering in front of the theater, hissing at the bad art in the museums, mourning the lost and meeting new friends from the other side. You know, all that jazz that happens downtown a small midwestern town, uh, sort of. Let's face it though, it was BORING! Life in Sunset Valley was so gay I had gag reflexes for weeks. I wanted to jazz up life so much. I was really bummed when the first EP wasn't the fun one. I'm happy now. Hopefully more good stuff is to come. (Like a really easy and nice way to make L and U shaped stairs without resorting to building cheats. I hate having stuff between floors.)

Anyway, I wanted to share something I found at my favorite site for house plans, Dream Home Source. Hee, hee, they found me. I dunno how, but they found me! I noticed an ad in the sidebar for Sims 3 Late Night. Someone has been paying attention to the build addicts. Now you're probably wondering, and just what were you doing at a house plan site macgirl? Well, it's not like there's porn to look at. Sheesh. I was actually looking for a modern/contemporary house plan to fill the odd sized lot in Bridgeport, on snob hill. It's 40 something x 30 something. I don't really have anything for a WIDE lot so I went and found a plan. This style of home isn't my intuitive style so I really need some inspiration to get a lot like this done. I wanted something modern but with room for a family. There isn't much in Bridgeport large enough to raise a family. Heck, most of the housing isn't even big enough for 2 sims. I have a hard time making any of those existing lots feel homey. They're kind of sterile and disturbing, sort of. So you should see a lot for Bridgeport coming soon. I hope. I have to pull myself away from my awesome vampire sim and be productive.

Now, onto the game. I am wondering where the Change Name option went at City Hall. My slightly mentally disabled game decided to give my vampire his wife's name when they got married instead of her receiving his. He proposed and initiated the wedding sequence. I don't get it. And it's a retarded name too. Seriously, I spent hours doing name research to develop a good last name for him. (Name stuff is another hobby of mine born from the ceaseless need for sim names. No, they're not A, B, and XYZ. Everyone is not named Bob.) I tried to get his name changed last night while playing and the option was never available. It's just not there any more. POOF! Just when I need it too. And just by getting married he got 2 star status and his wife hit 3. There was this big impressive concert of sim achievement music and glittering stars going on. I thought something exploded. Nah, they just got famous. Or infamous. His wife constantly has the 3 day negative moodlet for rumors. *GASP* She's been woohooing with an occult! I can't believe they're looking in their windows. They are! I caught them. Eeewww... that's just nasty. Makes me want to move the bedroom to the basement. Give them some privacy. It's not like they're doing it in the proverbial elevator for all the world to see. Sheesh. Nobody has said a peep about my vamp's repeated raids on Mike's Cornerstore for plasma fruit. I just refuse to pay for it. He's working on his gardening skill so he can grow his own, but for now he has to raid the store and scare innocent babies. He has such fun doing it though. So really the only rumor going around about them is the woohoo one. Hey, I can't help it the man's desire can't be sated. If I don't tell them to do it they just do it on their own. Don't yours? Mine do. I tell you, if I leave my older sims alone for a second they're hittin' the sheets. And skinny dipping! The man is obsessed with skinny dipping. Everywhere. If there is a puddle of water around he's naked. STOP THAT! Get back in this house this instant Mister! No woohoo for you!

Ahem, so I hired a butler for them. Mrs. Vamp wanted one. I got a chick. I didn't know butlers could be chicks. She's not an old fart either. She's like their best friend. They interact with her all the time. For some reason the Mrs. is as obsessed with playing catch with the butler as her hubby is about being naked constantly. He'll be over in the hot tub, naked, of course, and they'll be playing catch right next to him. It seems a tad... odd to me. With the baby now he has to control his urges better. He still gets the urges all the time but Mwhahahahahahahaha, the clothes must stay on. I suppose he'll start sneaking out of the house to go downtown and cheat on his hot tub. For shame. He doesn't even have the party animal trait. Hrm... maybe he needs therapy. And I assigned that stupid butler a bed and she just tries them all out. I never know where she is. And does she use the private bath I gave her and decorated so nicely for her? NO! She bathes anywhere. At random times. And it's really weird when your butler walks around the lot taking pictures of you constantly and spazzing because you're famous. Um, you're the butler, chill. You wash my underwear for Pete's sake.

Oh! Oh! And I took my vamp to the cemetery. I thought he'd like it. He found a vampire eye. Ew. It's a rock but how nasty is that? Taking a stroll through the cemetery, visiting the relatives, and stumble across an eyeball sitting in the grass. Tad gross. I find it funny though that my vamp goes downstairs and sleeps on the vampire bed there and tends bar. Noone shows up but he makes money. ??? Ya got me. I'm such a mom at times. I always yell at him when he uses the bed. Get off of there! What do you think you're doing? You don't know who's used that!

Well, OK, I suppose I should go. I have some lots to build. And some fruit to steal, er, raid.

My first story is online

Wanna read the adventure of Elly and Adam castaway on a lonely island?

Go here: Castaway - Elly and Adam

1,000,000 Downloads

Hi! I know I'm a little late with the news, that they're 1,041,000 downloads now, but better now than never :D.

I had a lot to do at college so I didn't have time to do this earlier.

So, thank you so much for all your downloads. I'm happy to see that so many people like my creations and enjoy them in their game. I want to thank my friends for their support and appreciation :).

In order to celebrate I just submitted a new dresses set :) and have great news, I am workind on opening my own site :).

          Happy simming and Hugs,

                           Irene

Copyright is such a difficult topic

Copyrights make for a huge topic. Sometimes even in the Sims community. I totally agree on the idea of protecting intellectual property, not the least because modern societies shift from producing material things to non-material values like entertainment or technology. Or to put it simple: Minstrels need to be paid if you want them to work as one. But the protection of the copyrights does pose a lot of problems. I don't see an easy solution to it. Several states have come up with different solutions (laws about "fair use", laws about "private sharing exceptions", etc, sorry I do not know all the names such regulations have in their respective countries) and all have their shortcomings and trapdoors.

Take at example the current patent system and the fact that many companies live off solely from the money they earn for sueing rich companies as notional patent violators. There are jokes that today only the very rich could afford not to be illiterate if the current patent system would have been in use when writing and characters were invented. Or that no car would exist if the wheel would be copyrighted by a cave man etc. Some fear that the patent system will not only protect investments in immaterial goods, but also slows the distribution of intellectual advances to the whole world up to a standstill. But as I said, intellectual property is a huge topic and I don't want to dwell on patents.

What I want to point my finger at is best illustrated by this: When I was younger, I was excited to see that computer soccer games went from 2D to 3D and that they looked more realistic by the day. Finally you could even recognize the face of the players, but then... copyright protection set in and the games weren't allowed to show real names or real faces any more without paying huge royalties. Since that time you have the choice to play several great soccer games but without real names/faces or to play one less good game but being the only one with the official licence of the year. I still find it ridicoulous. How long before I won't be allowed to mention Obama (copyrighted) as president (copyrighted) of the United States (registered trademark, used without permission) without paying a royalty up front?

A short while ago an artist I really admire for all the paintings she uploads was questioned about copyright issues. The longer you think about it, the stranger it sounds. If you look at all the Sims downloads, from clothing to clutter to paintings, all strive to mimick the real world as perfect as possible. Versace clothes? Ikea furniture? Coke can? Porsche car? Just imagine you would need an official licence for it - probably 3/4 of all downloads had to be erased because of copyright violations. The TSR artist was showing respect for the painters whose pictures she processed by asking her sources for permission to use it. This is a noble gesture. I bet most artists recreating a dress they saw in a fashion magazine are not doing such a thing. Think about all the Sims that are designed to look like a real life celebrity! Now think back to the soccer computer game case I mentioned above... If you use creations of others, show them due respect, but don't carry the copyright thought any further, or all hell will break loose and downloading/creating Sims stuff will become a lot more restrictive and expensive for all of us.

I can even add a small anecdote to this topic. My current story hero, called Jake Jarvis, was "lent" to a friend of mine who wanted to have him in her story as well. I liked the idea. She put Jake in and let him even appear in some "compromising" screenies, most of the time making him act differently than I would have done it. One way to react would have been to fear for "my intellectual property". Did she damage "my" Jake and the way I want him to be? People might see Jake differently now, even if they were reading my story again, wouldn't they? Should I fear for my yet unfinished story? Rubbish. She had fun with it, the people commenting on it had a good laugh, too, so no harm was done at all. Except some people had a great time with Jake, and I can't say anything bad about that :D Being over-protective wouldn't have made the world a better place.

The Sims is only a game. It is about big money, true, because EA is probably making a fortune with their brand, but still, it is a game for (nearly) all of us. We all want to have fun and the overwhelming majority is not out to hurt anyone or to steal anything or to rip others off. I am aware that I use a lot of CC and some of it is used in my stories. Since I never kept track of the CC I downloaded and which items were created by which artists,  I don't have a proper credit list in my stories myself, but that's more because of my inability to identify my CC and the matching artist, not because of not wanting to do it (and if you are one of the unmentioned CC artists, please drop me a message and I will list you in the credits!). At least I always thank the artist when I download their stuff. What I want to say: Give credit where credit is true, but beware of being over-protective.

But since this is such a difficult issue, I think it is very easy to have a different opinion on it :D. Feel free to voice it.

Just what will be uploaded and created soon =)

In submission area there are  7 submitted items:

-Posebox v 1.1

-TF set 9

Soon I'll upload very awesome 2 casual outfits from casual outfits collection and 3 dresses from casual dresses collection.

Then I'm going to see if I'm good at creating jewelry and purses-quite many of you asked for jewelry at my minisite's poll and I always rely on your feedback ;)

So yes,I change my plans every day (please dont kill me) but I still dont think I wont upload my role chapters or finally upload shadows of me to tsr-I'm on holidays after all right now =)

*but I'm suing fathers comp and he've got 4 days long weekend=minimal use of internet =( *